On 09:09 Sat 11 Oct , John Hebert wrote: > At 22:23 10/10/2003 -0700, you wrote: > >When I run those commands, if I get nothing or > >nonsense, am I not running Bind? I do not want or > >need to run Bind. > > Good question. On a Debian box, I guess you could either run dselect to see > if it is installed or you could take a look at the startup scripts in > /etc/init.d. Just about everything in /etc/init.d is started at boot > depending on how ya boot (which runlevel, etc.). I believe you could also > see if port 53 is open, which is the port that named listens on for DNS > queries. > > Remember that named is the name daemon. My understanding is that named > provides responses to DNS name queries, and so it is not installed by > default. I'll bet you ain't got it installed. > > >What logs could I check to see if it is loading, or > >trying to load? > > Nuther good question. I should be asking more questions on this list. Maybe > I'll start asking "dumb" user questions and really start learning about > Linux/UNIX. The only "dumb" questions, are Micro$oft questions. > > John Hebert > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
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